The Edition: Crash course
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🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
As Liz Truss returns from Conservative Party Conference with her wings clipped, has she failed in her revolutionary aims for the party?
James Forsyth discusses this in the cover piece for The Spectator, and is joined by former cabinet minister and New Labour architect Peter Mandelson to discuss (01:08).
Also this week:
Is it time that the West got tough with Putin?
Mark Galeotti writes in this week's magazine about the likely scenarios should Putin make good on his thermonuclear threats. He is joined by Elisabeth Braw, fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, to consider how the West should respond (13:14).
And finally:
Anthony Whitehead writes about the 'arrogance' of the Tyre Extinguisher movement in The Spectator this week, a new environmental activist organisation letting down the tyres on SUVs all around the world. He speaks to Tusk, one such 'extinguisher' about the motivations and aims of these activists (25:07).
Hosted by Lara Prendergast and William Moore.
Produced by Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Can Accord Genuity Wealth Management, experienced wealth planners and investment managers who offer unwavering support in challenging times. |
| 0:10.0 | Visit can-dowealth.com for more information. Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator. |
| 0:24.2 | Each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor. |
| 0:31.0 | And I'm Laura Prendergars, the Spectator's executive editor. |
| 0:34.3 | On this week's episode, we look at whether Liz Truss's Tory Revolution has already failed. |
| 0:39.9 | Plus, is it a time the West got tough on Putin when it comes to his nuclear threats? |
| 0:44.4 | And finally, we look at the latest environmental activist movement, Tyre extinguishes. |
| 0:49.9 | First up, for his cover piece in the magazine this week, James Forsyth says that after a difficult |
| 0:55.1 | week at the Tory Party conference, the wheels seem to be coming off for Liz Truss. |
| 0:59.8 | He joins us now alongside former cabinet minister and new Labour architect Peter Mandelson, |
| 1:05.1 | who writes the diary in this week's spectator. |
| 1:07.9 | James, you're just back from conference. |
| 1:09.8 | Can you start by giving us your reflections on how it went? |
| 1:12.9 | It's been a remarkable conference. I can't quite remember one like it. Liz Trust finished it with a |
| 1:18.7 | speech that went pretty well. But the days beforehand were very striking. Now, first of all, |
| 1:24.4 | there was a big U-turn on the abolition of the 45 P-top rate of tax. |
| 1:32.1 | And yes, you can say that measure is not specifically important, but I think it does matter because Mitz Trust and Quasi Quartet's whole argument was, we're not going to be slaves to what they |
| 1:36.6 | perceive as a kind of social democratic consensus. We're going to scrap this tax rate precisely |
| 1:41.7 | because it is totemic. So the retreat from it is also totemic. |
| 1:47.4 | And then on the Tuesday, we had a remarkable day of kind of cabinet infighting, which is |
| 1:53.6 | Penny Mawton calling for benefits to be upraised in line with inflation when everyone knew |
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